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Guest Permission Problem

Guest Permission Problem

Mark Lyons

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Apr 17, 2016 - 11:46 am

All,

I set up my guest permissions to allow a guest to view the Members Lists on my forum (but not the respective profiles). Unfortunately, when I test it, it only shows the "Admins" member ... none of the other members show up.

I've attached 2 screen shots that show the situation.

My forum URL:

http://www.icwoa.org/wp/forum/

Any help to resolve this issue would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark

Yellow Swordfish

Glinton, England

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Apr 17, 2016 - 12:07 pm

It is actually because any user that can view the members list is automatically only allowed to see user groups they are a member of and the admins. But I will double check that in the code later on when I can

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Mark Lyons

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Apr 17, 2016 - 2:00 pm

Hi Andy,

Yes, that appears to be the case ... and may make sense for Guests. Now that I understand the User Groups usage, I went ahead and tested the various user groups. Here's what I discovered:

Admins can view Members, Moderators & Admins
Members can view Members, Moderators & Admins
Guests can only view Moderators & Admins (not Members)
Moderators can only view Moderators & Admins (not Members)

On the last two, I can understand the Guest restriction (although I don't like it!) ... but I don't understand the Moderator restriction. I think this issue could be resolved if members could be assigned to more than one User Group ... but that doesn't appear to be the case.

Any further insight into this issue would be much appreciated ... thanks!

Mark

Yellow Swordfish

Glinton, England

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Apr 17, 2016 - 2:08 pm

The Moderators does not sound correct but that will depend on the various forum permissions they are assigned.

Leaving that aside for a while, users CAN belong to multiple user groups. Check your setting at user groups > map users...

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